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And Matheline, dazzled by the red light from his eyes, added: "It seems he is no longer one-eyed!" Pol brandished his club, and continued, "What are we waiting for? Why not attack him?" "Go you first," said the men. "I caught cold the other day, and my leg is stiff, which keeps me from running," answered Pol. "Then I will go first!" cried Matheline, raising her pitchfork.
A slow smile grew on Hradzka's thin lips as he thought of the tortures with which he would put Zarvas Pol to death. He glanced up at the great disc of the indicator and frowned. Already he was back to the year 7500, A.E., and the temporal-displacement had not begun to slow. The disc was turning even more rapidly 7000, 6000, 5500; he gasped slightly.
Your god-daughter Matheline will accompany you; and I will follow with friend Sylvestre, for fear some accident might happen to him with his lame leg and sightless eye." As he proposed, so it was done; for Josserande suspected nothing, knowing that her son had promised, and that he would not break his word. As they were leaving, Pol whispered to Matheline,
Even behind the hedge which enclosed the abbey orchard Matheline and Pol were hidden to see her pass; and she heard Pol say, "Will you come to-night to see the wolf run around?" "Without fail," replied Matheline; and the sting of her laughter pierced Josserande like a poisonous thorn. The grand abbot received her, surrounded by great books and dusty manuscripts.
Here, surely, is the most productive spot of all Brittany; the peasants are not as poor as elsewhere, the fields are properly cultivated, the colza is superb, the roads are in good condition, and it is frightfully dreary. Cabbages, turnips, beets and an enormous quantity of potatoes, all enclosed by ditches, cover the entire country from Saint Pol de Léon to Roscoff.
He began: "M-e-t there's your met; r-o there's your ro; there's your metro; p-o-l there's your pol; there's your ro-pol; there's your met-ro-pol; i there's your i; there's your pol-i; there's your ro-pol-i; there's your met-ro-pol-i; t-e-n there's your " "t-a-n," cried the girl next to him, who happened to be Sukey Yates, and Douglas stepped down and out.
The Curé told afterward how wonderful the sight was with the jewelled windows lighting up for the last time, before the old glass burst with the shrill tinkle of a million crystal bells. He and Jean de Visgnes carried Louis de St. Pol out into the street, but the boy died before they reached his father's house, and De Visgnes had a dangerous relapse.
Messire Thibault dwelt with the lady, and had of her two sons, who in later days were worthy gentlemen of great worship. The son of the Count of Ponthieu, of whom we have spoken much and naught but good, died shortly after, to the grief of all the land. The Count of St. Pol was yet alive; therefore the two sons of my lord Thibault were heirs to both these realms, and attained thereto in the end.
Having assembled an army of some eight thousand foot and fifteen hundred horse, partly Gascons and partly Germans, he was accordingly directed to ravage the neighboring country, particularly the county of Saint Pol.
Any stranger, coming suddenly into the room, must have felt its light and gaiety and happiness. The high wide dining-room windows were open and looked, over sloping lawns, down to the Pol and up again to the woods beyond. The trees were faintly purple in the spring sun, daffodils were nodding on the lawn and little gossamer clouds of pale orange floated like feathers across the sky.
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